dendrite

Gonna try the hortimulch from dirt doctors, in CON, on top of my garden beds this year. It’s a blend of aged spruce, fir, and hemlock mulch mixed with compost. After seeing how it looks I may spread it around the shrubs too. Good stuff.

Not written by Cranky

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8303393/Polar-Vortex-blasts-northeastern-record-low-temperatures-broken.html

At least 5" in Randolph, NH today while DCA had 0.6" and BWI 1.8" for the entire winter respectively. That'll be another world for phineas.

Looks like this patch of snow will survive the day into tomorrow morning. 34/20

1 minute ago, TheSnowman said:

Can someone PLEASE explain this Snow situation?  My friend from the Hamptons just called up and said “It’s like 45 and it’s SHOWING!?”  I look at the Radar, and the Rain / Snow Line is clearly NW Worcester.....  

 

EXCERPT, this Circular Section over the Hamptons that is a Blue Ball of Snow.  
 

WHAT IN THE HELL?  But also, the “Snow” that’s stuck looked Much more like Hail, But Hail Only Congress in Thunderstorms?  But it’s sleety?  It snowed in True Flake Form after she took that picture as well
 

I’m both confused by what the “Snow” actually is, and What is this Bay of cold air and hope How it happen?  But again, sue said it was clearly warm when in the 40’s.  

 

29 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

What was your high? 40? So you’ve been in the low to mid 30s because of these squalls lol. That’s nuts. 

Really brief 40F.

Pretty good sized dippin dots rightnow. 

Back down to near freezing with big fluffy dendrites falling out out of a milky blue sky. Looks like diamond dust.

1 minute ago, DotRat_Wx said:

Where are the incredible squalls that we talked about for days 

In NNE

2 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

How rare is this for northern Maine? I feel like ive seen snow plenty of times in maine up there. The records are pretty low for CAR, for any given date in the first half of may.

CAR is on pace for their 2nd coldest May low max on record. This would also be the coldest high temp there for so late in the season. As for the snow..

Snow/graupel in this cell. It's basically heavily rimed dendrites.

9 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

It's intense you can see on passing by me on the webcam

The chickens are ready.

The chickens may not like the next one.

31/24 at 315pm with SHSN. Really impressive day.

33.9° with west wind, some sun, and SHSN on 5/9. Pretty typical.

Squall after squall after squall. Wind is roaring.

Briefly hit 40°, but back down to 34.6° after a nice squall.

Here comes Ginxy’s squalls.

Love me some observing differences...

...Rockingham County...
Northwood 2.9 WSW            2.1 in    0700 AM 05/09   COCORAHS
Northwood 1.9 WSW            0.3 in    0700 AM 05/09   COCORAHS

Just now, powderfreak said:

Ha!  I think we've had enough clouds to keep snow on the trees but the grass looks the greenest it's looked yet this spring.  Little snow fertilizer.

Funny to have green lawn and 1-2" on all the bushes and evergreens.  Very odd look.  I give it another hour till that falls too.

I still don't understand the snow = fert concept. My lawn was pretty green yesterday.

Even the majority of the rain that falls this time of year starts in the clouds as snow. If it's a nitrogen thing, it shouldn't matter if the condensation nuclei reach the ground as snow or as rain.

Just now, CoastalWx said:

Quicker than lipstick on Kevin at a GTG. 

Felt like a January snow event in Harwich

Vaporized.

Shaftsbury not living up to its name.

2 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah he’s trying to move the goalposts based on some moron media members playing up a historic snowstorm angle. 

He’s totally ignoring the airmass part now. He will likely try and claim that when it hits mid-40s for a high, that the same thing happened last year even though it was onshore flow and sheet drizzle (and will ignore the low temps). 

I mean ORH tied or broke their record low during mid morning with snow.

Jesus christ...+SN BLSN and howling wind. Down to the current low of 29.9F

W T F

It's like deep winter